Wire-working tool.



No. 884,821. P ATENTED APR. 14, 1908. J. HUHTA &.-P. LAURELL.

WIRE WORKING TOOL; APPLIGATION FILED 11183.24. 1907.

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JOHN HUHTA AND FRANK LAURELL, OF DE KALB, ILLI NOIS.

WIRE-WORKING TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 14, 1908.

Application filed April 24, 1907. Serial No. 370,071.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN HUI-I'm and FRANK LAURELL, citizens of the United States of America, residing at De Kalb, in the county of Dekalb and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in ire-forking Tools, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to wire working tools and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a wire working tool made in accordance with our inven tion. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on the line 22 of Fig. 1, and looking in the direction indicated by the arrows. Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of one of the jaws of the tool. Fig. 4 is a plan view of one member of the wire cutter. Fig. 5 isa similar view of the other cutter.

Referring to the drawing for a more particular description of our invention, the numeral 1 designates one of the jaws, formed integral with which is the bearing portion 2 and the handle 3. The other jaw 1 is provided with a bearing portion 2, and an integral handle 3. Formed on or secured to the handle 3" is a gage 4, said gage comprising the two members 5 having a V-shaped opening 6 between them and provided with suitable indicating marks 7 to indicate the gage of the wire. The handles 3, 3 are prelerably hollow upon their inner sides, and secured to the handle member 3 is a spring 8, said spring being curved and lying within the handle member 3, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The wire cutter members 9 and 10 are of identical contour, and oppositely disposed between the bearing portions 2 and 2 of the jaw members. The wire cutter members each are provided with a cutter 11 and oppositely disposed cutting notches 12. A lug 13 extends from each member, each of said lugs being provided with a toe 14 which is secured in an opening in each of the handle members, as indicated in dotted lines Fig. 1. The pintle 15 passes through the bearing members 2, 2 and through the opening 16 in the cutter members 9 and 10, thus disposing the cutting edges 11 of the wire cutters between the jaw members 1 and 1 back toward the pivotal point, and out of the way of the jaws. The jaw member 1 is rounded at its front end, as at 17, Fig. 3, the purpose of which is to provide means for readily picking up short lengths of wire.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that a wire working tool made in accordance with our invention is compact, strong and durable, and in which the gage for the wire and the wire cutter are disposed in positions for convenient use.

The tool is of comparatively simple con struction, and can be manufactured at slight cost.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim is:

A wire working tool, comprising handles with jaws, each of the handles being made hollow on its inner face, a spring secured within the hollow of one of the handles, the opposite end of said spring being curved and lying within the hollow of the other handle, a plurality of cutting members having notches therein and also provided with cutting blades )rojecting outwardly therefrom, the cutting members being arranged between the handles, a pintle inserted through the cutting members and the handles, said cutting members being further provided with lugs having toes which are secured to the handles, substantially as specified.

In testimony, whereof we a'lliX our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN HUH'ITA. FRANK LAUREL];

WVitnesses ISAK W'ILMERO, PETER J. ZEIEN. 

